Posted on 02/16/2015 9:10:33 AM PST by John Semmens
In remarks to an inner cadre of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, maintained that “economic progress since the Industrial Revolution has gone too far. The Earth is in danger of being overrun by unconstrained prosperity.”
“Capitalists like to contend that the increased life expectancies and material well-being of billions of people is some sort of proof that the system is a good thing,” Figueres said. “But they are wrong. Billions more humans living longer lives in greater luxury is a problem, not a benefit.”
“There is no objective evidence proving that people living longer is better in a collective sense for all the biota of the planet,” Figueres continued. “What about all of the other animals and plants whose lives may have been made worse off by the success of this one species?”
“Nether is there any objective proof that the freedom and opportunity the market system imposes on people is a source of happiness,” Figueres argued. “Freedom and opportunity force people to make choices. If these choices don’t turn out well, people may experience guilt or regret. Failures would then be largely an individual’s own fault. If we transition to a system where the important decisions are made for people by ruling authorities we will relieve them of their feelings of guilt and regret. Their suffering wouldn’t be their own fault.”
Figueres hailed the anti-global warming movement as “an ingenious innovation in social thought. World leaders and the media have done a masterful job of elevating normal climate fluctuations into a crisis justifying stern government measures to rein-in the excesses of human achievement. This will make the necessary culling of the human herd in order to save the planet an attainable goal within the next decade or two.”
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This is not so much semi-satire as it is a succinct restatement of their proclamations.
Satire or not, this is the mind-set of the income equality crowd at the UN. If they are so against capitalism. Kick them out of NYC and have them move to a country that suits them better. The UN was Woodrow Wilson’s revenge for his miserable presidency. We need to junk this ATM for free loaders.
Sorry, it’s not satire.
I have more regard for the small smelly Obamas floating in the White House outhouse than I have for any creature currently infecting the U.N.
Problem w getting rid of capitalism, eventually you run out of other people’s money.
Sorry, John, but I don’t see the “satire” part.
It is only satire in the ridicule heaped up on the UN. Otherwise, it is a pretty good summation of UN policy.
Great job!
Not satire. People actually believe this stuff.
Rousseau won a prize by his critique of hunan progress in 1755, and he believed that that inventions do not contribute to human happiness. He also extolled the state of nature against the chains of civilization. This turf has been used by libtards ever since.
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